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Jan Sokol

1936 - 2021

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Jan Sokol (18 April 1936 – 16 February 2021) was a Czech philosopher, dissident, politician and translator. He briefly served as Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in 1998 under Prime Minister Josef Tošovský. From 1990 to 1992, he was Member of Parliament for Prague. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Sokol has received more than 6,541 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jan Sokol is the 15,391st most popular politician (down from 12,466th in 2019), the 682nd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 476th in 2019) and the 135th most popular Czech Politician.

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  • 20

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  • 2.69

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  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jan Sokol ranks 15,391 out of 19,576. Before him are Sumu-Epuh, Samuel J. Tilden, Juan Ponce Enrile, Ernst Benda, Suhaila Siddiq, and Nikolai Stepulov. After him are Raoul Cédras, Walther Schreiber, Claes Andersson, Jean Lassalle, Casimir Oyé-Mba, and Nelson W. Aldrich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Jan Sokol ranks 431. Before him are Çolpan İlhan, Lane Smith, Paulo Emilio, Edmond Keosayan, Rosa Russo Iervolino, and Juan Seminario. After him are Ádám Bodor, Lazarus Salii, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Dieter Krause, Nh. Dini, and Anna Maria Alberghetti. Among people deceased in 2021, Jan Sokol ranks 465. Before him are Kurt Biedenkopf, Djibril Tamsir Niane, Lubomir Kavalek, Giuseppe Galante, Abubakar Shekau, and Norm Macdonald. After him are Casimir Oyé-Mba, Peter Mark Richman, Michael Fisher, Orlando Martínez, Jan Jindra, and Viktor Putyatin.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Sokol ranks 682 out of 1,200. Before him are Edmund Reitter (1845), Josef Holeček (1921), Karel Koželuh (1895), Alena Vrzáňová (1931), Vladimír Zábrodský (1923), and Hana Mašková (1949). After him are Bohuslav Sobotka (1971), Hugo Simon (1942), Jakub Arbes (1840), Vojtěch Bradáč (1913), Jan Jindra (1932), and Jiří Weiss (1913).

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Among POLITICIANS In Czechia

Among politicians born in Czechia, Jan Sokol ranks 135. Before him are Jan Černý (1874), Zdeněk Mlynář (1930), Vlastimil Tusar (1880), Josef Tošovský (1950), Petr Nečas (1964), and Eva Bosáková (1931). After him are Bohuslav Sobotka (1971), Jiří Rusnok (1960), Dolly Buster (1969), Františka Plamínková (1875), Eduard Novák (1946), and Vít Jedlička (1983).

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